Title Freeze! : the grassroots movement to halt the arms race and end the Cold War / Henry Richard Maar III

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and the Influence of Public Opinion on Foreign Policy -- The Lost Years : The Peace Movement, from Vietnam to Nuclear Freeze -- Igniting a Movement: The Reagan Administration's War on Peace -- From the Streets to the Pulpit : The Catholic Challenge to the Arms Race -- With Friends Like These : The Nuclear Freeze and the Congress -- Envisioning the Day After : Fear of the Bomb in 1980's Political and Popular Culture -- The Perils of Failed Diplomacy : 1983 and the Year of Living Dangerously -- Seizing the Peace : The Nuclear Freeze Movement and the 1984 Election -- Epilogue : Bedtime for the Bomb Summary "In the late Cold War, a peace movement emerged with a specific goal: bilaterally freeze the burgeoning arms race. The Nuclear Freeze movement soon swelled across American society, pressuring the administration of Ronald Reagan to reverse the arms race or continue to face a growing backlash with potential electoral repercussions"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1980s antinuclear activism, International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, INF Treaty, 1980s anti-Reagan films and music, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2022) Subject Reagan, Ronald. SUBJECT Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald fast Subject Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century Nuclear arms control -- United States -- History -- 20th century Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States Cold War. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Antinuclear movement Diplomatic relations Nuclear arms control Nuclear weapons -- Government policy SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140105 United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115 Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763 Subject Soviet Union United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021011509 ISBN 9781501760891 1501760890 9781501760907 1501760904

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